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- noun Plural form of
forebrain .
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Examples
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They injected virus-bearing fluid into small areas of their forebrains and used fiber-optic cables to illuminate them with blue and yellow light.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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They injected virus-bearing fluid into small areas of their forebrains and used fiber-optic cables to illuminate them with blue and yellow light.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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There is also evidence that the oxytocin receptors in rats' forebrains tend to atrophy when maternal nurturing is "insufficient".
Oxytocin: could the 'trust hormone' rebond our troubled world? 2011
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We're at the end of our rope with this one, having already dealt with it in 2007, and need to trawl your collective forebrains.
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We're at the end of our rope with this one, having already dealt with it in 2007, and need to trawl your collective forebrains.
nonesuch mcSpluttershirts and the colonorectal imaging cameras 2009
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They possessed extraordinary features: forebrains roughly 50% larger than ours, and estimated IQs to match--far surpassing our own.
Archive 2008-03-01 Kosmo 2008
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And I've seen people -- honest, honorable, who I thought were wildly wrong about something voting for Firecracker Frog Boy, maybe ... and maybe you could say they were lying to themselves, but you couldn't really say they were lying in any way their forebrains knew about.
Michigan, Florida, and reality maps Steven Barnes 2008
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It's our pesky forebrains that must label every sensation and thought that comes through.
Archive 2007-05-01 Steve Caldwell 2007
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If some accident of evolution had led reptiles to develop advanced forebrains capable of language and higher-level consciousness, while maintaining their nonexistent child-rearing habits, they might have ended up writing powerful verse about some other deep-seated biochemical urge—temperature regulation, say—but there would be no love sonnets in the reptile canon.
Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004
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If some accident of evolution had led reptiles to develop advanced forebrains capable of language and higher-level consciousness, while maintaining their nonexistent child-rearing habits, they might have ended up writing powerful verse about some other deep-seated biochemical urge—temperature regulation, say—but there would be no love sonnets in the reptile canon.
Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004
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